Food: Seeds of grass and other small seeds form the main food for these birds. Moreover they eat some insects now and then. These are also fed to the young during their first week.
Double-barred Finches are peace-loving birds, almost invariably found in each others’ vicinity. Outside the breeding season, hundreds of them together search for food, and for water in particular. They clamber tit-wise through the bushes and high grass. They sleep in a special sleeping nest without an entrance tunnel.